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All People All Places (APAP), a charity helping homeless people in Enfield and Haringey, is celebrating a highly successful winter fundraising campaign. APAP are planning to move to new premises and launch a new project.

Enfield’s extended antenatal course helps women, birthing people and their partners prepare for birth and parenthood. It is an interactive online workshop delivered by Enfield Council with partners from the NHS, Breastfeeding Network (BFN), Mind in Enfield and Barnet and Tottenham Hotspur.

Mark Hawkins-Dady from Better Streets for Enfield describes a guided walk that the group organised earlier this month, exploring both ancient and (comparatively) modern stretches of the New River - the centuries-old aqueduct that still supplies fresh water to London.

A statement by the rail minister published this month reveals that the project to make Palmers Green station accessible has been indefinitely deferred because of the cost of installing lifts and the disruption it would cause. A key criterion for future station accessibility projects will be the availability of third-party funding.

A statement by the chair of governors about the proposed closure of Palmers Green High School later this year blames it on a sustained decline in pupil numbers at the fee-paying school over many years.

A ceremony was held in Southgate High Street at the weekend to mark the opening of a new library - a miniature replacement for the now closed full size library, with ribbon cutting performed by a local poet and writer whose historical novels have been enjoying international success.

Jasmine from Bowes Park is trying to find a missing cat.

This month's edition of Safer Neighbourhoods News for Palmers Green ward is now available. It includes a graph showing the incidence of shoplifting. which rose sharply in 2024 but has fallen steeply since.

Your input can help the local health service watchdog body determine its priorities for the coming year.

Information about junior squash coaching sessions at Southgate Squash & Racketball Club, based at the Walker Ground in Waterfall Road.

Salsa with Sureka, now in its 13th year, returns this week with a new spring season of Salsa Wednesdays at Bounds Green School.

Local resident Joan Bushill has launched a petition on the 38 Degrees website requesting that Enfield Council install a pedestrian crossing over Morton Way near the Morton Crescent roundabout. The petition also calls for measures to improve pedestrian safety at the roundabout where Morton Way meets Waterfall Road (close to the Piccadilly Line bridge).